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LIVE Annapolis Book Festival: April 25

by Cleve Corner

Book TV is LIVE from the 2015 Annapolis Book Festival; our coverage of this annual event, held at The Key School, in Maryland's state capitol, includes:

10-11am:  Panel on Immigration Reform

  • Alberto R. Gonzales, A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform: Perspectives from a Former U.S. Attorney General
  • Aviva Chomsky, Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

11-12pm:  Panel on Climate Change

  • Adam Sobel, Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future
  • Gernot Wagner, co-author, Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

12:30-2pm:  Panel on World War II & the Holocaust

  • Martin Goldsmith, Alex's Wake: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany, and a Grandson's Journey of Love and Remembrance
  • Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
  • Eric Lichtblau, The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
  • Sarah Wildman, Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

2-3pm:  Panel on Privacy Rights in a Digital Age

  • Jim Dwyer, More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley
  • Amitai Etzioni, The New Normal: Finding a Balance between Individual Rights and the Common Good
  • Marc Rotenberg, Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions

 

3-4pm:  Panel on the War on Terror

  • Lt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.), Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
  • James Risen, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War